Lenny's Podcast / episode intelligence
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17 published records
01 / recommendation
“Oh boy. In this discipline, probably all of our books: Inspired, Empowered, and we are coming up with one in March, Transformed.”
02 / belief
“I think that's super interesting. And then I think another key part of this is it's one solution that solves many people's problems.”
03 / evaluation
“I think another added benefit of doing these things before you say you're VP is that is the best way to get promoted to a VP is you are already doing the job.”
04 / observation
“Solving the problem is the clearest indication that we've solved the problem and that we know how to solve the problem then.”
05 / commitment
“In January, I am going to be launching a fund, the Paid Africa Fund, and I want it to be a fund funded by the product community for Africa.”
06 / belief
“I tell people the best fit to be useful to us is to do good work using these principles and all the things we teach people over and over again. We care about outcomes, we care about good product work in the world.”
07 / uncertainty
“I wanted to start with this trend I've been noticing in product management and the perception of product management. It feels like, I don't know if this is new or if it's always been around, but it feels like there's this trend of people just not liking product managers.”
08 / preference
“The part of why I love this technique, the two biggest reasons I think, the first is if I cannot find a certain number of people that have this problem, my goodness, it might not be a problem, but solve it.”
09 / evaluation
“That's unreal. I love how this is the epitome of doing things that don't scale. You going hiring McDonald's employees and then Starbucks employees.”
10 / preference
“Come in and do an interview with me, observe me do an interview, ask questions, see what works, get feedback. That's why I love those group product manager roles because those are actually meant to be designed as ways for people to make a decision if they want to be a manager or they want to just stay in the discipline, but people use them as why would you give somebody four direct reports if no evidence, they can manage one?”
11 / evaluation
“I'm looking for empathy, humility in some sense. It is a competence thing because most of I can teach, I can coach a lot of things, but that arrogance, that ego, those kinds of things, those "I walk alone," those things are very, very challenging and disruptive to a team culture.”
12 / commitment
“" On the very first day of launching the app, there are 25... so I will know I am not ready until I have achieved 25 people that have told me, worked with me and said, "I am now ready to put my reputation the line.”
13 / evaluation
“" Yeah, it's like nights, weekend, shipping, stuff like this. We started hiring in the summer because of how painful it is.”
14 / evaluation
“We see back patterns where it's like the second you become a manager or a leader, you cannot say things like, I don't know.”
15 / commitment
“I will look phenomenal with the iPhone 16, so I'm going to go stand in line at the Apple Store for three hours or overnight because I just can't wait to get my hands on the Apple 16.”
16 / preference
“I said, "Tell us who has this problem you've come across," because we need to work with more people to try to uncover a solution that is scalable, maintainable, reliable, and works for our business.”
17 / evaluation
“Yes it is title, but if you think about why someone is called a CEO, it's because there's some competence that made someone give them the title, they are great at growing businesses, they have a good stride, whatever it is.”